Meijer’s Universal Knowledge Field

Biomedical scientist Dirk K. F. Meijer explains consciousness in the context of a “Universal Knowledge Field” (UKF), the concept that a collective storage of all information that is present and/or evolves in our universe can take on a universal character and that all information is present in a general knowledge field. Other names for the UKF, he says, include Universal Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Universal Mind, Universal Memory, Universal Intelligence, Holographic Memory, Collective Consciousness, Implicate Order, and the Plenum. The UKF is said to be consistent with fundamental physics, cosmological, and holographic models. In addition, universal consciousness can be approached from transcendental human experience, including transpersonal and psi phenomena (Meijer, 2018).

Universal Knowledge Field

Meijer claims that integral information processing in the universe is based on a generalized musical-scale of discrete electromagnetic field (EMF) frequencies and that the biophysics literature reports the effects of similar EMF frequency patterns in a wide range of animate and non-animate systems. This provides a conceptual bridge between living and non-living systems, relevant for biophysics, brain research, and biological evolution.

He proposes that the pro-life EMF frequency bands may literally act in concert as a “tonal octave-based symphony” to provide living systems, including the brain, with information embedded in such harmonic-like resonance patterns. Such “tonal” projections, in a global manner, may organize synchronicity, both spatially and temporally, in essential organs in the body: heart and brain (Meijer et al., 2020, pp. 1–31).

Thus, if nature is guided by “a discrete pattern of harmonic solitonic waves,” since the whole human organism, including brain, is embedded in this dynamic energy field, a comprehensive model for human (self-) consciousness could be conceived. This implies an intrinsic cosmic connectivity that is mirrored in the human brain. An assumed “hydrodynamic superfluid background field” is proposed to guide the ongoing fabric of reality through a “quantum metalanguage” that is instrumental in the manifestation of universal consciousness, of which human consciousness is an integral part (Meijer et al., 2020, pp. 72–107).

Brain, Field, and Consciousness

Meijer proposes a “pilot-wave-guided supervenience” of brain function that may arise from a “holofractal memory workspace” associated with, but not reducible to, the brain, which operates as a scale-invariant mental attribute of reality. This field-receptive workspace integrates past and (anticipated) future events and may explain overall ultra-rapid brain responses, as well as the origin of qualia (Meijer et al., 2020, pp. 31–71).